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CONSTITUTED UNDER AN ACT OF THE LEG ISLAWfil 
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Monument to the 13th New Jersey Volunteers. 



REPORT 



Gettysburg Battle— Field Commission 



OF NEW JERSEY. 



CONSTITUTED UNDER AN ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE, 
APPROVED APRIL 27th, 1886. 



Dated December 15th, 1881 



TRENTON, N. J. : 

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GETTYSBURG MONUMENT COMMISSIONERS. 



JAMES N. DUFFY, Newark. 

GOTTFRIED KRUEGER, Newark. 

WILLIAM H. CORBIN, Elizabeth. 



REPORT. 



To His Excellency Robert 8. Green, Governor of New Jersey : 

The undersigned, Commissioners appointed pursuant" to Chapter 
199 of the Laws of 1886, to erect "suitable monuments to mark the 
positions of the New Jersey regiments upon the battle-field of Gettys- 
burg," respectfully submit to Your Excellency their second report, as 
follows : 

In the report rendered to the Governor, December 7th, 1886, the 
Commissioners called attention to the fact that there would be required, 
to properly carry out the act of the Legislature, one brigade monu- 
ment, ten regimental monuments, and four or five substantial shafts 
or posts. The State appropriation for this work was $6,000, of which 
$300 had, at the date of our first report, been expended. The Com- 
missioners deemed it proper to intimate that a further appropriation 
would be necessary to complete the work in a becoming manner. 

His Excellency Governor Abbett, in his last annual message, very 
warmly seconded this suggestion of the Commissioners, and Your 
Excellency, also, in the inaugural address, gave further approval of 
the work of rearing monuments. The Legislature very promptly 
added the sum of $9,450 to the previous appropriation, making a 
total of $15,450. 

Early in the present year the Veteran Association of the Thirteenth 
Regiment collected, by private donations, $1,000, and placed it in the 
hands of the Commissioners, with the request that it be expended 
upon the monument of their regiment. 

The Commissioners accordingly contracted for a monument, to cost 
$2,000, and the same was completed, paid for, and dedicated on the 
1st day of July last. 

It stands in an oak grove, on the westerly bank of Rock creek, at 
a point very near the extreme right of the Union line of battle of 
July 2d and 3d. It is to the south of the now historic Spangler's 

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Spring, and of the little stream issuing from it, and is but a short 
distance north of the Baltimore pike. It marks the position of the 
regiment held on the night of July 2d and on July 3d. 

The foundation of the monument is a pier of solid rubble masonry 
ten feet in depth, laid in cement. 

The monument consists of two massive stones, a base weighing about 
eight tons and a die weighing about thirteen tons. Upon the front of 
the die is cut in relief the life-size figure of a kneeling soldier in the 
act of firing. 

We have appended to this report a copy of the inscription upon the 
monument, and some account of the dedicatory exercises. Much 
interest in the event of the dedication was developed by the survivors 
of the Thirteenth Regiment, and they and their friends to the number 
of about one hundred and fifty attended the exercises at Gettysburg. 
Your Excellency having graciously accepted an invitation to be pres- 
ent, also attended, together with Your Excellency's personal staff, and 
General Stryker, Adjutant-General of New Jersey. The kindly in- 
terest manifested, and the part taken by Your Excellency in the dedi- 
cation, added, in a marked degree, to the pleasure of the veterans, and 
lightened not a little the labors of the Commission. 

Contracts have recently been made for the erection of monuments 
to the "First New Jersey Brigade," and the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, 
Eighth, Eleventh and Twelfth Regiments of Infantry, the First Cav- 
alry, and Batteries A and B of the First Artillery. All are to be 
completed on or before the 15th of June, 1888. 

The position of Battery A, which had not been located at the date 
of the first report, has been definitely fixed, thus completing all the 
locations. The Commissioners designated and called to their aid in 
making this location, Frederick Heuschkel, a survivor of the Battery,, 
who was present at the battle of Gettysburg. 

Some delay has occurred in acquiring the land for the positions, and 
in two or three cases negotiations are not yet satisfactorily terminated;, 
but the Commissioners have no doubt that all the positions will be 
secured in time for the erection of the monuments. The foundations 
for the monuments to the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Eleventh Regi- 
ments of Infantry, and the First Cavalry, have already been laid. 

Imitating the example of the Thirteenth Regiment, the Veteran 
Associations of some of the regiments have raised funds to be expended 
upon their monuments, and have requested the Commissioners to use 
the same to supplement the State appropriation. 



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The Commissioners have also received from a number of well-known 
citizens private donations towards the monuments, some of them to be 
used for certain specified monuments, and others given without restric- 
tion. These gifts amount to about $2,700. 

Of the entire appropriation of $15,450, the Commissioners had 
hoped to spend $15,000 upon the monuments, and to confine the ex- 
penses of locating the positions and all other expenses to $450. It 
has been found, however, that the expenses will, under the most frugal 
management, necessarily exceed $450. The donations received have 
accordingly proved most timely and useful. They will enable the 
Commissioners to expend the entire $15,000 upon the monuments, 
and to add a considerable sum thereto. 

The result will be more massive and ornamental monuments than 
could otherwise have been erected. 

The Commissioners very carefully considered the question of what 
stone should be used in the monuments, and after investigation of the 
subject, decided that nothing but granite should be employed. 

The monuments will be of the Quincy, Westerly, Hallowell, Barre, 
Oak Hill and Gettysburg granites, all of which are believed to be 
thoroughly suitable to the purpose. 

There has been expended during the year $1,150 of the appropria- 
tion, leaving unexpended $14,000, all of which will be required before 
the 15th day of June next. 

The Commission confidently expect that the monuments now in 
course of erection (ten in number) will be completed before July 1st, 
1888, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle, but they believe it 
would be inadvisable to attempt to conduct any dedicatory exercises 
at Gettysburg at that time. Experience has shown that upon every 
anniversary day the numbers of visitors to the village of Gettysburg 
and to the battle-field are so great as to occasion overcrowding and 
discomfort. 

The Commission, therefore, think that a day in the latter part of 
July or in August should be selected for the dedication of the New 
Jersey monuments. 

It has been suggested that it would be fitting to invite to the services 
all New Jersey veteran soldiers, of whatever commands, whether they 
were present at the battle of Gettysburg or not, and that the erection 
of the monuments should be made the occasion of a grand reunion of 
the soldiers; and that the State should recognize the occasion by 



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sending a portion of the National Guard, or in some other becoming 
manner. 

The Commissioners approve these suggestions, and lay them before 
Your Excellency for such action or recommendation to the Legisla- 
ture as Your Excellency may deem proper. 
All which is respectfully submitted. 

JAMES N. DUFFY, 
GOTTFRIED KRUEGER, 

WILLIAM H. CORBIN. 

December 15th, 1887. 



APPENDIX. 



APPENDIX 



DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT TO THE THIRTEENTH NEW 
JERSEY VOLUNTEERS. 



The dedication took place in McAllister's woods, at the place where 
the monument stands, on July 1st, 1887, at ten o'clock. 

Colonel James N. Duffy, President of the Gettysburg Battle-Field 
Commission of New Jersey, called the assembly to order and addressed 
them as follows : 

Ladies and Gentlemen — I have the honor, as Chairman of 
the Gettysburg Battle-Field Commission of New Jersey, of calling 
this assembly to order and of announcing its purpose. Charged by 
our State with the duty of erecting monuments to mark the positions 
occupied by her citizens in the battle fought on this field, we are now 
about to present to you for dedication, in fulfillment of that duty, in 
so far as it relates to the organization known, and forever to be known 
in her history and in the military records of the United States of 
America, as the Thirteenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, 
Infantry. We present it as the testimony of the patriotic, loyal and 
grateful State of New Jersey to the patriotism, loyalty and valor of 
her citizens. 

Music by the band followed, and Colonel Duffy then called upon 
the Rev. E. Livingston Allen, a former member of the Color Guard 
of the Thirteenth, who invoked the blessing of the Almighty. 

Mrs. W. S. Cannon, by request, sang "The Star Spangled Banner" 
in a voice full of emotion and power, which added to the scene au 
impreesiveness and fervor which stirred every heart. 

At the close of the singing, Colonel James N. Duffy and William H* 
Corbin, the President and Secretary of the State Commission, 
removed the flags covering the monument. As soon as the monument 
was unveiled Colonel Duffy introduced the Governor of New Jersey 

in the following words : 

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Ladies and Gentlemen — I have the honor of introducing the 
distinguished Governor of our State, Robert S. Green, who will 
address the survivors of the Thirteenth Regiment. 



governor green's address. 

Veterns of the Thirteenth Regiment, Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen — The State, the survivors of the Regiment, and their friends, 
have erected this enduring monument to the memory of those who 
have gone to their last resting-place. It is no disparagement to the 
other regiments which New Jersey sent to the field to say that in all 
qualities of soldierly discipline, of untiring endurance, of conspicuous 
bravery, the Thirteenth New Jersey stood in the front rank of those 
grand organizations which formed the armies of the East and West. 
[Applause.] 

Mustered into service in Camp Frelinghuysen in the summer, after 
a short time spent in camp you were hurriedly sent to join the Army 
of the Potomac at that critical moment of the country's history, when 
its own — our own — McClellan, had again been called to its head, at 
Antietam. Although that was the first time the regiment was under 
fire, so nobly did it conduct itself in that fight that it called forth the 
encomiums of General Gordon in his report of the battle : "And 
although for the first time under fire they fought like veterans, 
shoulder to shoulder with those who had borne the brunt of battle in 
the Peninsula, in the Shenandoah Valley, and from Front Royal to 
the Rapidan." Again, at Chancellors ville, you withstood the impetu- 
ous dash and charge of Stonewall Jackson's division. Here at Get- 
tysburg you were hurried to the scene, and the tablet upon that 
monument marks and records, and will hand down to history, the 
part that you took in this conflict. 

Bidding farewell to the Army of the Potomac you were hurried to 
the West, and there you took part in the battles of Resaca, Cassville, 
Dallas, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, in the March to the Sea, Buffalo 
Creek, the fight at Savannah, the campaign through the Carolinas ; 
and in the last battles of the war, where again you served under your 
gallant commander who is here with you to-day, General Slocum, you 
called forth these words of praise from your brigade commander, that 
"the whole army owed you thanks, for you had saved it," — in three 
almost resistless charges you had broken and driven back the columns 
of the enemy. 

Such is the grand record of the Thirteenth. You came back to 
the State which you had honored and which had sent you forth to the 
field of battle. You came back with your work well done. You 
•came back with the principle for which you had started estab- 
lished, for this was a war of principle ; it was a war of devotion to 
the country and for the perpetuity of the Union. The end was 



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accomplished, armed rebellion had been put down, peace was again 
restored and the integrity of the Union was established forever. 
[Applause.] 

These monuments erected are not only mementoes of the valor and 
bravery of those who fell. It is well that here, upon this memorial 
field dotted all over among these former scenes of carnage and of 
blood, these stones and tablets should be erected, not only for the 
purpose of recording the part which the soldier took in the battle, 
but for the other purpose, that the lesson of the war must never be 
forgotten. They will be here, in the grand old State of Pennsylva- 
nia, when you and we who are contemporaries of the war have passed 
away — and the veterans are now going fast, fast within the vale. Within 
a short time Grant, McClellan and Hancock have been gathered to 
their fathers. In a little while you and we and all of us who were 
then alive and realized the dangers of the war will have gone, and 
these monuments will show to our children and to those who come 
after us how much danger there was to the unity of this country, for 
with all the force, and courage, and discipline of these States armed 
disunion came thus far within our borders. Let these monuments 
teach the lesson of that war, and so long as they do so teach, so long 
as these dead sentinels keep their watch and ward, so long will the 
integrity of the Union be established and never again will the suprem- 
acy of the Government under the Constitution be assailed. [Ap- 
plause.] 

Col. Duffy. — I now have the pleasure of introducing Hon. Wil- 
liam H. Corbin, Secretary of the Gettysburg Battle-Field Commis- 
sion, who will make the official presentation of this monument to- 
your Veteran Association. 



MR. CORBIN'S PRESENTATION. 

Veterans of the Thirteenth Regiment — The State of New 
Jersey has erected this monument for a two-fold purpose : 

First, to aid in the effort to preserve the history of this famous 
field; secondly and chiefly, to place in the sight of all men a memo- 
rial of the gratitude and affection which the State bears towards her 
heroic volunteer soldiers. 

It is proper at this point that the following facts be stated : 

The State, by legislative appropriation, provided the necessary 
funds for securing the positions held on this field by New Jersey 
troops, and for erecting and preserving perpetually, monuments to all 
the regiments and batteries engaged. 

Three Commissioners were appointed to carry out the enactment. 
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Regiment expressed a desire to donate something to the fund so set 
apart for their regiment as a tribute to the memory of their fallen 
comrades. 

The Commission readily assented to this. The result was that not 
only the survivors of the regiment off* red their gifts, but many 
citizens, beiDg townsmen and neighbors of the men of the Thirteenth, 
sent in free-will offerings which were added to the others, until there 
was thus collected the sum of one thousand dollars, a sum equal to 
the State appropriation for the monument. 

And so it is that we present to you to-day a work modeled and 
fashioned uot alone by the decree of a generous and grateful Common- 
wealth, but a work embellished by the willing hands of neighbors 
and friends, and finished and made beautiful by the loving touch of 
comrades in battle. 

To give this stone value as an item in the history of the great battle 
it was essential that it be located upon the exact position occupied by 
the Hue; that every statement upon it be absolute truth; that it be 
built not as a pretty toy to please our eyes to-day, but that it be as a 
mighty immovable rock, which s-hall defy the storms of the centuries, 
and remain a witness to unnumbered ages to come. 

To secure these ends no pains have been spared and no effort omit- 
ted. The foundations of this monument are laid deep down in the 
earth; the most excellent methods of construction have been followed. 
The materials used are the best that experience can suggest or scien- 
tific research approve. The monument is precisely in the line of the 
works occupied by the Thirteenth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry 
and it stands on the spot where the colors of that regiment stood on 
July 3d, 1863. The scene so beautifully carved by the sculptor upon 
this stone is not merely a conceit of the artist; it tells a part of the 
story of the battle. What is shown here is very fact. Look at this 
picture: thus the men of the Thirteenth fought here. Observe this 
soldier cut in stone; precisely so were the men of New Jersey clad 
and accoutred at Gettysburg. This rifle, poised for its fatal work, is 
a perfect counterfeit of the rifles used with such deadly effect in this 
place. 

The words cut on this granite are a simple recital of the truth, 
gleaued with much care, verified with great painstakiug and estab- 
lished beyond doubt. Disputed facts have been omitted. Doubtful 
assertions have not been made. It may be, nay, it must be, that 
much has been omitted that might be truthfully told. 

All that has been said has the sanction of official record and of 
living witnesses. 

The history of this field has been made; we cannot add to, nor can 
we abate anything of its glory. We are making up the book of that 
history for future generations the more easily to read. If in the little 
page of it here inserted to-day we have made a faithful record, we 



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may rejoice that we have even that humble part in the mighty strug- 
gle wherein the fate of our country was decided and salvation assured. 

I have said this monument has a two-fold significance. As a guide- 
post on this field it is well. As a reminder that the soil whereon it 
stands is sacred, blood-bought ground, it is praiseworthy. But it has 
a deeper meaning. It means that he who offers up his home, his 
peace, his comfort and his life for his country shall be held in ever- 
lasting remembrance and his name honored throughout all genera- 
tions. It means that the State will see to it that the memory of the 
brave shall not decay, and that men shall not lack perpetual witnesses 
to the patriotism of their fathers. This monument means that we 
revere the memory of the fallen of the Thirteenth New Jersey Vol- 
unteers, and that we respect and honor their comrades who still 
survive. We remember their services and we do not forget their 
sufferings. In the darkest hour of war they willingly and ungrudg- 
ingly left their homes, their farms, their shops and their desks and 
hurried to the conflict. While they were still untrained and unused 
even to the parades and forms of war, they were, within one short 
month from the time of their enlistment, plunged into the bloody 
and awful battle of Antietam. From that day forth for three long 
years their daily lot was to march, to fight, to hunger and to suffer. 
They forded rivers, they toiled painfully along rough roads under a 
broiling sun, they fainted beneath the burdens too heavy to bear, they 
slept amidst cold and frost, they were wounded, mutilated, imprisoned, 
tormented, killed. 

They endured with fortitude, they fought with courage, they obeyed 
with cheerfulness. 

Veterans of the Thirteenth, let not the memory of your past suffer- 
ings nor the weakness of advancing years depress your brave hearts. 
Believe not for a moment that your sorrows have been in vain or that 
your battles have been forgotten. Be assured that the flight of years 
shall but serve to bring to a clearer light your courage and your patri- 
otism. Comfort your declining years with the just reflection that the 
unselfish sacrifice of the strength of your youth was made, by the 
blessing of Almighty God, an instrument for the salvation of your 
country and the establishment of liberty, justice and peace. 

The Battle- Field Commission of New Jersey have now the honor, 
in the name of the State, to deliver to you this monument, to be by 
you delivered to the Gettysburg Battle-Field Memorial Association, 
who have engaged, with the State of New Jersey, that it shall be 
forever unmolested, cared for and maintained. 

May this stone stand till oppression shall cease and true liberty 
become the possession of every citizen of this republic. May it be 
spared from the destroying hand of malice and treason. May it never 
suffer from indifference and neglect. May it withstand the ravages 
of time until wars shall cease in the earth, until hatred and envy, 
murder and strife, shall be at an end; until every man shall love his 



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neighbor as himself and the kingdoms of this world become the king- 
doms of our Lord and of His Christ. 

Captain Matthews announced that, owing to the death of the father 
of General F. H. Harris, the President of the Association, he was, to 
the regret of all, unable to be present, and introduced Dr. J. J. H. 
Love, Surgeon of the Thirteenth Regiment, who would read General 
Harris' address : 



PRESIDENT HARRIS' ADDRESS. 

Colonel Duffy, President of the Battle-Field Commission of New 
Jersey : 

Sir — As the representative of the Veteran Association of the Thir- 
teenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, I hereby accept, for the time 
being, the monument which has just been unveiled by your Commis- 
sion. 

It has been erected by the joint contributions of the State of New 
Jersey and of this Association. On behalf of the Association I desire 
to thank the people of the State for this exhibition of affection and 
gratitude toward her sons who participated in the trials, dangers and 
hardships of the soldier's life, and present to the Commission repre- 
senting them our thanks for the energy and good taste displayed in 
the construction of this beautiful and appropriate monument. 

General Harris then addressed his comrades-in-arms, recounting in 
a most interesting manner their experiences, and making eloquent and 
touching reference to the fallen. The paper is too long for insertion 
here in full. It closes as follows : 

Amid these hallowed surroundings, as we dedicate this monument,, 
let us pledge each other to dedicate ourselves anew to our country. 
Let us swear ever to maintain this glorious Union, that her foes shall 
be our foes, her friends our friends, and that her interests shall always 
be dear to our hearts ; and, as the nation moves grandly forward to 
its final destiny, may we always remember that its liberties were saved 
at Gettysburg. 

To the Gettysburg Battle-Field Memorial Association : 

Gentlemen — It gives me great pleasure, as the representative of 
the Veteran Association of the Thirteenth Regiment, New Jersey 
Volunteers, to transfer to your care this monument which has just 
been unveiled, believing that your Association will, for all coming 



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time, care for and protect the same, and that it shall always stand as 
a memento of the valor and sufferings of those loyal men who fought 
to perpetuate the liberties of our country. 

In response, John M. Krauth, Secretary of the Gettysburg Battle- 
Field Memorial Association, accepted the monument as follows : 

Gentlemen of the New Jersey Commission : 

My words to you to-day shall be brief, but I know that they shall 
be sincere and from the heart. My time and my thoughts for the 
past two or three days have been so thoroughly absorbed with work 
which is entirely divergent from an assembly such as this, that I feel 
that I cannot discharge the duty assigned me here to-day as it should 
be done ; but, however feeble and halting or hesitating my words 
shall be, we realize the fact that the association which I have the 
honor to represent here to-day realizes that it would be greatly inde- 
corous and highly improper if we did not in some way recognize the 
distinguished honor which you pay us by being here to-day. We 
have listened with great pleasure to the exercises of the morning, and 
with especial interest to the grand and thrilling address of your Gov- 
ernor; and I desire to say here, on behalf of the Association, that we 
thank you and your prosperous and patriotic State tor the munificent 
appropriation it has made to the Gettysburg Battle- Field Association 
for the preservation, perpetuation and maintenance of this great battle- 
field, and to congratulate the veterans of this regiment that they have 
been enabled to erect such a handsome, beautiful and appropriate monu- 
ment. I can only say, on behalf of the Memorial Association, that 
they are assuming not only a privileged but a sacred trust, and the 
highest duty that could be imposed upon them is to pledge themselves 
here to-day to care for, to protect and to guard this monument. It 
shall be a loving duty for us to say that no hand of the vandal or the 
spoiler shall ever molest it, and we shall transmit it to our successors 
in office, and trust that they shall transmit it to their successors, until 
it will be handed down to the remotest generations of posterity. 
[Applause.] 

Now, in saying this, I do not know that I can say anything more 
but repeat the assurance that it shall stand here for time and ages yet 
to come as a perpetual and enduring memorial to the sacrifices, hero- 
ism, gallantry and martyrdom of the men of tne Thirteenth New 
Jersey Volunteer Infantry. 

Three cheers were given at the close of Mr. Krauth's remarks, for 
the Gettysburg Battle- Field Memorial Association. 

Adjutant-General Stryker was next introduced by Captain Matthews 
and spoke as follows : 

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Comrades — It gives me great pleasure, ray comrades, to meet to- 
day the veterans of one of New Jersey's regiments on this most his- 
toric battle-field. 

Six weeks ago I passed over the fields of Spottsylvania and the 
Wilderness, pushed my way through vast cedar tracts, stood on the 
historic grounds of Salem Church, entered the famous McCoyle house, 
tramped along the line of the Confederate rifle-pits, stood on the spot 
where the brave Sedgwick fell, leaned over the worm fence at the Bloody 
Angle at Spottsylvania, saw where the brave New Jersey troops charged 
on Ewell's forces again and again on those eventful days. The stillness 
of an almost deserted country reigned over this desolate land, but it 
was not hard to realize that over these fields vast bodies of veterans 
had lain hidden in the brushwood, and, jumping up, had attacked each 
other boldly. The mementoes of the war were to be seen on every 
side. I came away from this field impressed, if it were possible for 
one who had been a participant in the scenes of bloody carnage, 
impressed more and more with the valor of a soldiery who could, day 
after day, fight over such a desolate country for the honor of the flag 
and for the unity of the Republic. 

To-day I shall stand with you opposite the stone wall where the 
valorous Pickett charged on Hancock's Union line ; I shall clamber 
up with you on Round Top and wander around among the boulders 
in Devil's Den ; and we are here on this spot on Rock creek where 
the brave Jerseymen with their Massachusetts brethren resisted the foe. 

Memories, no doubt, crowd upon you to-day of the fighting on the 
Hagerstown road near the Dunker church, where your own brave 
Captain Irish fell ; and it needs not, after his Excellency's remarks, 
for me to speak of Chancellorsville and the March to the Sea, but 
there was one fight he omitted, the fight at Kenesaw Mountain, which 
you can all remember, where young Lieutenant Ryerson, of the very 
best fighting blood of New Jersey, fell mortally wounded. 

The sweet British poet Cowper, in one of his most beautiful stanzas, 
seems to depict the work in which you are engaged to-day. I trust I 
may be able to repeat it : 

" Patriots have toiled, and in their country's cause bled nobly ; 
And their deeds, as they deserve, receive proud recompense. 
The historic muse, proud of her treasure, marches with it down to latest times, 
And sculpture, in her turn, giveB bond in stone, and everduring praise to guard it 
and immortalize the trust." 

New Jersey has given bond in stone, and sculpture will to-day begin 
the trust which shall immortalize to latest times the services of those 
who bled nobly, for those who died heroically all through the civil 
war, under the starry banner of the Thirteenth Jersey. [Applause.] 

Captain Matthews next introduced the orator of the day, General 
Henry W. Slocum. 



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The oration of General Slocum was one of great interest. It 
abounded in reminiscences of the army and particularly of the 
Twelfth Corps. It was listened to throughout by the large audience 
present with evident satisfaction and delight. 

The exercises closed with a medley of national airs. 



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INSCRIPTION ON MONUMENT TO THE THIRTEENTH NEW JERSEY 

VOLUNTEERS. 




13th Kegiment, N. J. Volunteers, 
3d Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Corps. 



Thirteenth Regiment, N. J. Volunteers, reached this battle-field 5 
p. m., July 1, 1863, and with the brigade went into position on the 
north side of Wolf Hill. During the night occupied a position in 
support of Battery M, First N. Y. Artillery. July 2, in morning, 
held position near Culp's Hill ; in afternoon marched to relief of 
Third Corps near Round Top; at night returned to right of the 
army. July 3 occupied position marked by this monument, support- 
ing Second Massachusetts and Twenty-seventh Indiana in their charge 
on Confederate flank. In the evening moved to extreme right to 
support Gregg's Cavalry. 

Killed and mortally wounded, 2; wounded, 19. 

Mustered in August 25, 1862. Discharged June 8, 1865. 



ENGAGEMENTS 



Antietam, 1862. 
Chancellorsville, 1863. 
Gettysburg, 1863. 
Resaca, 1864. 
Cassville, 1864. 
Dallas, 1864. 
Culp's Farm, 1864. 



Nancy's Creek, 1864. 
Peach Tree Creek, 1864. 
Siege of Atlanta, 1864. 
March to the Sea, 1864. 
Siege of Savannah, 1864. 
Averysboro, 1865. 
Bentonville, 1865. 



Total losses during the war 
of Disease and in Prison, 43. 



Killed or Died of Wounds, 75. Died 
Wounded, 244. Total, 362. 



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